ISBN 9780814798379 | 0814798373 Textbooks - "Race in Translation Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic" by Robert Taylor Robert Stam Ella Shohat John Shohat Ella and Stam

Authors: Robert - Taylor - Robert Stam - Ella Shohat - John; Shohat - Ella and Stam
ISBN 10: 0814798373
ISBN 13: 9780814798379
Release: May 28, 2012
Format: Hardcover (383 pages)
List Price: $89.00
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Tags: Arts & Photography, Photography, Photojournalism,

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While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the Transnational.

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Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic